Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 32, Issue 7 , Pages 740-745 , September 2010

An intrauterine pressure generator for educational simulation of labour and delivery

  • Luísa F. Bastos

      Affiliations

    • INEB - Instituto de Engenharia Biomédica, Porto, Portugal
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Instituto de Engenharia Biomédica, Divisão de Sinal e Imagem, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, s/n, I302, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal. Tel.: +351 22 508 1623; fax: +351 22 508 1624.
    • ,
  • Mariana F. Lobo

      Affiliations

    • INEB - Instituto de Engenharia Biomédica, Porto, Portugal
    • ,
  • Willem L. van Meurs

      Affiliations

    • INEB - Instituto de Engenharia Biomédica, Porto, Portugal
    • Department of Anesthesiology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, USA
    • ,
  • Diogo Ayres-de-Campos

      Affiliations

    • INEB - Instituto de Engenharia Biomédica, Porto, Portugal
    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Portugal
    • Biomedical Simulation Centre, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Portugal

Received 9 October 2009 ,Revised 14 April 2010 ,Accepted 19 April 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2010.04.015

Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 32, Issue 7 , Pages 740-745 , September 2010

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